Monster Manual (3.5)

Encounter a horde of monsters armed and ready to battle your boldest heroes or fight alongside them. The fully illustrated pages of this book are overrun with all the creatures, statistics, spells, and strategies you need to challenge the heroic characters of any Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game.

Over 200 creeps, critters, and creatures keep players on their toes. From aboleths to zombies, the revised Monster Manual holds a diverse cast of enemies and allies essential for any Dungeons & Dragons campaign. There are hundreds of monsters ready for action, including many new creatures never seen before.

The revised Monster Manual now contains an adjusted layout that makes monster statistics easier to understand and use. It has 31 new illustrations and a new index, and contains expanded information on monster classes and playing monsters as heroes, along with information on how to take full advantage of the tie-in D&D miniatures line.

This is my first DriveThru purchase. I have often been told that many/most of the PDF products have links in the table of contents and other places in the book, but I can't find any in this PDF. Are there none, or might there be something wrong with my PDF reading program?
I can click View and then Table of Contents, giving me a table of contents to the left of the reader that I can jump back and forth in, but there are no links in the text, which would make it far easier to jump straight to the monster I am searching for.

Emil HJanuary 27, 2017 8:40 pm UTC

PURCHASER

Update:
I still do not get why there are no links in the PDF, but I have found a solution for the PDF being too dark. Only some "reader programs" do that (at least Preview and IBooks) but some do not (like Adobe and opening the document on the internet (I am using Safari. I'm not sure how it is with other internet programs))

nathaniel CSeptember 27, 2015 12:15 pm UTC

is this edition avaidable in french?

May 06, 2015 1:46 am UTC

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Can whoever created the pdf for this product check out the bookmarks? A number of them under the "Monsters A to Z" section have "OBJ" written next to the monster name, and while the bookmarks do work, that makes me wonder if perhaps there was an error of some kind when the pdf was built. All in all, however, this is a great release!

May 26, 2015 4:57 pm UTC

PURCHASER

My copy seems to have that as well. As you said, the links still work. I wonder if that "OBJ" tag isn't a remnant placeholder, or some leftover tag from when the PDF was being proofed? Is there any way for you guys (the DNDCLASSICS team) to correct that? As it stands, it is a minor flaw, and would still not prevent me from giving it 5 stars (which I have done.) This book is excellent!

May 05, 2015 4:53 pm UTC

Is this the updated edition with all the errata corrected?

Brian LMay 05, 2015 8:54 pm UTC

PURCHASER

Yes. 'First Printing: July 2003, This Printing August 2012' on the first page.

Matt MMay 05, 2015 9:09 pm UTC

DUNGEON MASTERS GUILD STAFF

To the best of our knowledge this does have some errata updates. The 2012 reprint did have errata and this is a PDF version of that hardcover.

As with the PHB and DMG for 3.5 ed, the MM for 3.5 is equally well-made; beautiful, high-resolution page images which stand up to the "zoom-in" test quite well. I have yet to see any flaws in the images for these pages, in any of these (3.5 [...]

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